Hong Kong Housing Estate.
Director of Housing in Hong Kong, Miss LAW Shuk Pui, Rosanna said on Saturday on a radio program that nearly 5,000 Hong Kong public flats have been retrieved over the past two years from wealthy tenants, comparing the reclaimed flats equivalent to a medium-sized public estate, with a construction cost of about HK$5 billion (US$640m).
The official stated that among involved include those whose financial capability is uncovered through expensive cars seen around the public buildings and some others who own properties across the border.
“The crackdown on abuse [of public rental flats] is very meaningful and we will carry on,” she said in an interview.
The government flats that normally take a few years to construct can just take a few months to renovate after retrieving them for reallocation, Law said.
In regards to the revised housing rules, all tenants should now have to declare their income and assets every couple of years, an obligation that used to be every 10 years.
It was stated that almost all of the 250,000 household tenants who have lived in public housing for 10 years or more have completed their income and asset declarations. There are 1,800 of them who have proactively returned flats to authorities, report said.
However, around 70 households had failed to declare on time and the government had already issued them letters to hand back the flats, it was added.
官員稱，香港從富裕租戶手中收回5,000套政府單位，建設價值相當於50億港元
香港房屋署署長羅淑佩週六在電台節目中表示，過去兩年，香港已向富裕租戶收回近5,000個公屋，回收單位相當於一個中型公屋地產，建築成本約為50 億港元（6.4 億美元）。
這位官員表示，參與其中的人包括那些透過昂貴的汽車在公共建築周圍巡視而發現其經濟能力的人，以及其他一些在邊境擁有房產的人。
「打擊濫用公屋的行為非常有意義，我們一定會繼續下去，」她在接受採訪時表示。
勞說，通常需要幾年時間建造的政府公寓在收回重新分配後只需幾個月即可完成翻新。
關於修訂後的住房規定，所有租戶現在都必須每隔幾年申報一次他們的收入和資產，而以前是每十年申報一次。
據稱，在公屋居住10年以上的25萬名住戶，幾乎全部完成了收入和資產申報。 其中有 1,800 人已主動將公寓歸還給當局。
不過，她表示，約有70戶家庭未能按時申報，政府已向他們發出信函要求交還單位。
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